I have an Eastern Black Swallowtail chrysalis that is not attached to a twig or stick. It was lightly attached, but it fell to the ground as it wriggled from its caterpillar skin. Looking at books, I ...

We know about migrating species of butterflies, but they don't all fly south for the winter. Several overwinter in their home habitat and could use your help.

I love butterflies…of all kinds. And I have written several articles about this beloved insect. Most of the time, I write about the monarch butterfly, because I have raised them the last few years.

Charlie Bruggemann in Kempsville in Virginia Beach passed on his photo-essay of a black swallowtail butterfly emerging from its chrysalis at 10 a.m. one morning and flying off into the wild blue ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

When someone says “butterfly,” what do you see in your mind? Many people think “monarch” but actually picture a beautiful tiger swallowtail in their mind. Tiger swallowtails are large yellow ...

Monarch butterfly numbers still appear to me to be very low for the first week in August. However, another butterfly, one even bigger than the monarch, has been making is presence known over the past ...